Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Edmund Schiddel
Charting Feb 22, 1959 → Jun 14, 1959 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.96%
- week of May 17, 1959
- Career Power
- 71
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 71
- June 1958 – June 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 71
- June 1954 – June 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of May 17, 1959
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 book · 71 share-weeks of Career Power
Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Devil in Bucks County | #7 | 16 | 70.9 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Edmund Schiddel's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1958 to June 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Boris Pasternak483
- 2Vladimir Nabokov441
- 3Robert Traver392
- 4Leon Uris347
- 5Patrick Dennis256
- 6Jerome Weidman208
- 7John O'Hara196
- 8Edna Ferber176
- 9Mary Renault154
- 10Anya Seton146
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.